Brad Wall and Climate Change
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2015 Policy Uncertainty Created A Weak Year For Clean Energy Investments in Canada: Report
Clean energy investment surged to $497 billion worldwide in 2015 while in Canada investment in renewables experienced a massive 46 per cent plunge to around $5.4 billion, according to a new report released Monday by Clean Energy Canada.
Global investment is up from a total of $420 billion in 2014 with nearly one-third of of new investments occurring in China. Spending on renewables increased in the U.S. by seven percent, in India by 23 per cent and in Mexico by 114 per cent. Read more.
Low Expectations for Saskatchewan Premier's Brad Wall's High Emissions
The summer of 2010 was a bad year for Saskatchewan. Record floods, winds and hailstorms led to 175 communities declaring states of emergency, and costing the province over $100 million. “The Summer of Storms” also made it the worst year ever for insurers, with $100 million in crop insurance payouts.
Premier Brad Wall, a man once described by Maclean’s as “standing athwart history yelling ‘I’m not sure about this!’ ” responded to the string of natural disasters with a telling quote: “The one thing the province cannot control is the weather,” he said.
Unfortunately for Saskatchewan, the type of extreme weather that cost it so dearly in 2010 is symptomatic of what models predict for the province under a changing climate. Read more.
Canada Must Adapt to Low Oil and Gas Price Environment, International Energy Agency Warns
If Saudi Arabia’s oil minister’s dire warning about high-cost energy producers didn’t effectively get the message across that Canada needs to adjust to a new market reality, perhaps a new warning by the International Energy Agency (IEA) might.
“We are likely to see continued capacity increases (in) the near term, with growth slowing considerably, if not coming to a complete standstill, after the projects under construction are completed,” the IEA said in an oil market overview published Monday. Read more.
Oilsands Monitoring Programs Collecting But Not Using Data, Report Finds
Oilsands monitoring programs aren’t quite living up to expectations.
That was the conclusion presented by a six-person expert panel in Edmonton on February 22.
The two organizations that were examined have improved in performance in recent years but have largely failed at actually conducting analysis of the data collected, according to the review.r0
